The site is part of Skalitzer Park in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Situated within the evolving landscape of German-Turk diasporic culture, the building sits at an intersection of conservatism and secularism.

To challenge the spatial syntax of gender segregation in traditional Turkish spaces, the proposed bathhouse hyperbolises and subverts the spatial asymmetry in gender stereotypes. A sequence of orthogonal double-volume spaces along the dominant movement axis is juxtaposed against a series of meandering paths of a more intimate scale. The interwoven flows create moments of asymptotic anticipation and partial intersections with the diametric “other”, before converging climatically in the hot room.

The iconographic element of the arch is reinterpreted into earth-cast concrete-vault structures, acting as ordering devices for the interlaced paths. The cavernous building provides an elemental experience of the hammam’s material and atmospheric qualities. The programme forms avenues for interaction within an interconnected whole, in response to the diasporic community’s growing desire for inclusive spaces within traditional heterotopias.